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Haruki Murakami Quotes

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan Picture Quote #1

George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I’m 100 percent fiction writer... I don’t want to write messages. I want to write good stories. I think of myself as a political person, but I don’t state my political messages to anybody Picture Quote #1

I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and I got some kind of prize, so it was like a dream - I was surprised to find it happening Picture Quote #1

In Japan, the writers have made up a literary community, a circle, a society. I think 90 percent of Japan’s writers live in Tokyo. Naturally, they make a community. There are groups and customs, and so they are tied up in a way Picture Quote #1

My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father’s generation. It’s a kind of inheritance, the memory of it Picture Quote #1

Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don’t think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside Picture Quote #1

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Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to sleep through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won’t be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there- to the edge of the world. There’s something you can’t do unless you get there Picture Quote #1

But who can say what’s best? That’s why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives Picture Quote #1

Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I’m told. It’s in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can’t trust anything they haven’t seen with their own eyes or touched with their own hands. (Jerusalem Prize acceptance speech, JERUSALEM POST, Feb. 15, 2009) Picture Quote #1

I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light, the smell of a breeze, the sound of cicadas - if I like these things, why should I apologize? Picture Quote #1

And everywhere, infinite options, infinite possibilities. An infinity, and at the same time, zero. We try to scoop it all up in our hands, and what we get is a handful of zero. That’s the city Picture Quote #1

Let me tell you something, Mari. The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under you. And once that happens, you’ve had it: things’ll never be the same. All you can do is go on, living alone down there in the darkness Picture Quote #1

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You might think you made a new world or a new self, but your old self is always gonna be there, just below the surface, and if something happens, it’ll stick its head out and say ‘Hi.’ You don’t seem to realize that. You were made somewhere else Picture Quote #1

Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock ‘n’ roll. Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights Picture Quote #1

Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67? Picture Quote #1

Don’t pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it’d lose even its imperfection Picture Quote #1

Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli commandos might decimate a Palestinian village. I couldn’t stop it. I was going to sleep Picture Quote #1

One last word of advice, though, Mr. Okada, though you may not want to hear this. There are things in this world it is better not to know about. Of course, those are the very things that people most want to know about. It’s strange Picture Quote #1

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Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but loose you Picture Quote #1

You’re afraid of imagination and even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the resposibility that begins in dreams. But you have to sleep and dreams are a part of sleep. When you’re awake you can suppress imagination but you can’t supress dreams Picture Quote #1

That’s evolution. Evolution’s always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution Picture Quote #1

How much do you love me?’ Midori asked. ‘Enough to melt all the tigers in the world to butter,’ I said Picture Quote #1

I wasn’t particularly afraid of death itself. As Shakespeare said, die this year and you don’t have to die the next Picture Quote #1

This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real blood, where pain is real pain and fear is real fear. The moon in the sky is no paper moon Picture Quote #1

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Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves Picture Quote #1

Problem is, once I sit at my desk and put all these down on paper. I realize something vital is missing. It doesn’t crystallize - no crystals, just pebbles. And I’m not transported anywhere Picture Quote #1

It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can’t learn it from a book Picture Quote #1

I hate requests. They make me feel unhappy. It’s like when I take a book out of the library. As soon as I start to read it, all I can think about is when I’ll finish it Picture Quote #1

There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night Picture Quote #1

You said that the mind is like the wind but perhaps it is we who are like the wind Knowing nothing, simply blowing through. Never aging, never dying Picture Quote #1

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I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan (Haruki Murakami Quotes) George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I’m 100 percent fiction writer... I don’t want to write messages. I want to write good stories. I think of myself as a political person, but I don’t state my political messages to anybody (Haruki Murakami Quotes) I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and I got some kind of prize, so it was like a dream - I was surprised to find it happening (Haruki Murakami Quotes) In Japan, the writers have made up a literary community, a circle, a society. I think 90 percent of Japan’s writers live in Tokyo. Naturally, they make a community. There are groups and customs, and so they are tied up in a way (Haruki Murakami Quotes) My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father’s generation. It’s a kind of inheritance, the memory of it (Haruki Murakami Quotes) Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don’t think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside (Haruki Murakami Quotes) Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to sleep through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won’t be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there- to the edge of the world. There’s something you can’t do unless you get there (Haruki Murakami Quotes) But who can say what’s best? That’s why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives (Haruki Murakami Quotes) Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I’m told. It’s in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can’t trust anything they haven’t seen with their own eyes or touched with their own hands. (Jerusalem Prize acceptance speech, JERUSALEM POST, Feb. 15, 2009) (Haruki Murakami Quotes) I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light, the smell of a breeze, the sound of cicadas - if I like these things, why should I apologize? (Haruki Murakami Quotes) And everywhere, infinite options, infinite possibilities. An infinity, and at the same time, zero. We try to scoop it all up in our hands, and what we get is a handful of zero. That’s the city (Haruki Murakami Quotes) Let me tell you something, Mari. The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under you. And once that happens, you’ve had it: things’ll never be the same. All you can do is go on, living alone down there in the darkness (Haruki Murakami Quotes) You might think you made a new world or a new self, but your old self is always gonna be there, just below the surface, and if something happens, it’ll stick its head out and say ‘Hi.’ You don’t seem to realize that. You were made somewhere else (Haruki Murakami Quotes) Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock ‘n’ roll. Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights (Haruki Murakami Quotes) Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67? (Haruki Murakami Quotes) Don’t pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it’d lose even its imperfection (Haruki Murakami Quotes) Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli commandos might decimate a Palestinian village. I couldn’t stop it. I was going to sleep (Haruki Murakami Quotes) One last word of advice, though, Mr. Okada, though you may not want to hear this. There are things in this world it is better not to know about. Of course, those are the very things that people most want to know about. It’s strange (Haruki Murakami Quotes) Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but loose you (Haruki Murakami Quotes) You’re afraid of imagination and even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the resposibility that begins in dreams. But you have to sleep and dreams are a part of sleep. When you’re awake you can suppress imagination but you can’t supress dreams (Haruki Murakami Quotes) That’s evolution. Evolution’s always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution (Haruki Murakami Quotes) How much do you love me?’ Midori asked. ‘Enough to melt all the tigers in the world to butter,’ I said (Haruki Murakami Quotes) I wasn’t particularly afraid of death itself. As Shakespeare said, die this year and you don’t have to die the next (Haruki Murakami Quotes) This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real blood, where pain is real pain and fear is real fear. The moon in the sky is no paper moon (Haruki Murakami Quotes) Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves (Haruki Murakami Quotes) Problem is, once I sit at my desk and put all these down on paper. I realize something vital is missing. It doesn’t crystallize - no crystals, just pebbles. And I’m not transported anywhere (Haruki Murakami Quotes) It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can’t learn it from a book (Haruki Murakami Quotes) I hate requests. They make me feel unhappy. It’s like when I take a book out of the library. As soon as I start to read it, all I can think about is when I’ll finish it (Haruki Murakami Quotes) There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night (Haruki Murakami Quotes) You said that the mind is like the wind but perhaps it is we who are like the wind Knowing nothing, simply blowing through. Never aging, never dying (Haruki Murakami Quotes)

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